Portraiture

The assignment for this week is to create two portaits, each of them using a different lighting pattern. There are four different lighting patterns: the loop, the Rembrandt, the split, and the paramount. The split pattern divides the face in half in light and shadow.  The loop lighting pattern casts a small shadow of the subject's nose onto their cheek, The Rembrandt lighting pattern has a larger shadow from the subject's nose so that it blends in with the cheek shadow; it creates a triangle of light below the eye of the the shadowed side of the face. The paramount lighting pattern casts a shadow of the subject's nose over the lip.   There are two different lighting styles; short and broad.  The short lighting style shows the shadowed side of the face toward the camera, and the broad lighting style shows the lighted part of the face toward the camera.

Short Rembrandt

John asked me to take some acting headshots for him, and this is one of my favorites. The typical "Rembrandt style" light triangle is below his left eye.  The short lighting style was ideal, as it slims the face.

Model: John Reilly

Paramount

The Paramount lighting pattern, which is ideal for Nicole, as it minimizes blemishes and imperfections was originally used by The Paramount movie studio on their starlettes. That lighting also made a beautiful lighting on her hair, creating a halo of sorts.

Model: Nicole Marie Olson